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Sep 28, 2017 11:31:36   #
planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs
 
Fly the "W." Cubs beat the Cards last night to clinch their second straight NL Central title.

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Sep 28, 2017 12:03:54   #
hankm1 Loc: Mount Prospect IL
 

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Sep 28, 2017 12:06:03   #
planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs
 
hankm1 wrote:


I grew up in your backyard - Arlington Heights. is Jakes Pizza still there (peanut shells all over the floor)?

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Sep 28, 2017 12:21:34   #
hankm1 Loc: Mount Prospect IL
 
planepics wrote:
I grew up in your backyard - Arlington Heights. is Jakes Pizza still there (peanut shells all over the floor)?


The Jakes we went to was on NW Hwy in Mt Prospect. Closed at least 5 years ago - unfortunately.
One year ago a new restaurant opened in the same (much remodeled) space -- Trezeros. A bit more
upscale than Jakes - almost any restaurant would have been more upscale than Jakes. Wish it hadn't folded.

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Sep 28, 2017 13:12:29   #
tbpmusic Loc: LaPorte, Indiana
 
planepics wrote:
Fly the "W." Cubs beat the Cards last night to clinch their second straight NL Central title.


Watched the Cubs my whole life, though I'm a White Sox fan (I know, not so great of late).
Happy they're doing well the past couple of years.
But Sox fans can't help poking fun at Cubs Fans.
This is my favorite shot (stolen from the web) from Wriggler Field - ahhh, Cubs fans..........


(Download)

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Sep 29, 2017 06:07:05   #
buckbrush Loc: Texas then Southwest Oregon
 
hankm1 wrote:
The Jakes we went to was on NW Hwy in Mt Prospect. Closed at least 5 years ago - unfortunately.
One year ago a new restaurant opened in the same (much remodeled) space -- Trezeros. A bit more
upscale than Jakes - almost any restaurant would have been more upscale than Jakes. Wish it hadn't folded.


I also grew up in Mt. Prospect but in the late 50s it was a pizza place called Mel and Paul's that was the main gathering place for many people. Their sons delivered in a 56 Ford station wagon that hauled ass. I worked there and we made everything from scratch and used nothing but the best ingredients like ground italian sausage that we pulled apart by hand and put BIG pieces on the pizzas. It tasted like a pizza should, not the processed sausage we get now.

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Sep 29, 2017 07:41:54   #
mas24 Loc: Southern CA
 
My Doctor, who is a big baseball fan, received two schedules from me a while back. He asked why I gave him just the Cubs and the Dodgers. I told him those two teams are going to the NLCS. One will win, of course. Dodgers have blown many past opportunities. This is one of the best baseball seasons in years. Both National and American League. I'm glad the Baseball Commissioner scratch that ruling, that the winning team, National/American League, at the All-Star Game, will have home court field advantage in the World Series.

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Sep 29, 2017 08:02:04   #
mas24 Loc: Southern CA
 
buckbrush wrote:
I also grew up in Mt. Prospect but in the late 50s it was a pizza place called Mel and Paul's that was the main gathering place for many people. Their sons delivered in a 56 Ford station wagon that hauled ass. I worked there and we made everything from scratch and used nothing but the best ingredients like ground italian sausage that we pulled apart by hand and put BIG pieces on the pizzas. It tasted like a pizza should, not the processed sausage we get now.


You can't beat the authentic style of making pizza from an Italian Restaurant. Is the Chicago style Deep Dish Pizza still popular? You needed a knife and fork to eat that one.

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Sep 29, 2017 08:18:27   #
buckbrush Loc: Texas then Southwest Oregon
 
mas24 wrote:
You can't beat the authentic style of making pizza from an Italian Restaurant. Is the Chicago style Deep Dish Pizza still popular? You needed a knife and fork to eat that one.


I know it dates me but back in the 50s there were no such things as deep dish pizzas. Just the normal thin crust and at M & Ps we always cut the pizzas in rectangles about 2 inches wide and not in triangles.

Of course, when we cut it like that every so often we'd cut a strip out of the center about 1/2 inch wide (after we made the dough bigger than the normal pizza), and then we'd push the pizza back together so us guys in the back room could get a strip of pizza to eat and not short change the customers.

Ohh, the things you could do back then that you can't do now. It was good times. No, it was great times!!

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Sep 29, 2017 11:13:59   #
planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs
 
My pizza place, because it was closer and my brothers and I also worked there at different times, was Barnaby's in Palatine. If I remember it was (is?) at the corner of Kennicott and NW Hwy. I went to school at the former Arlington HS ('81). When I turned 18 the owner poured me a beer and gave me the mug. I'm not sure if I still have it or got rid of it years ago.

PS please rearrange the sentences in your mind so they are in the correct order.

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Sep 29, 2017 11:32:29   #
mas24 Loc: Southern CA
 
I'm glad the Chicago Cubs made peace with Steve Bartman. I heard they are going to give him a 2016 Cubs championship ring. He made a bad mistake. But, he was a true Cubs fan. His life was a wreck after that incident at Wrigley Field. I remember seeing it live on TV. He had to be rushed out of the stadium for his safety.

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